Stephanie and Ian Campbell were "naive" about the impacts of Influenza B until their daughter was fighting for her life. They ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services has adopted a recommendation to remove a preservative called thimerosal from ...

An Australian family is urging others to vaccinate after their daughter nearly died from influenza B. The story highlights ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has approved a major Centers for Disease Control & Prevention ...

The mercury-based preservative thimerosal will be removed from all flu shots distributed in United States, Health and Human ...

The action will remove from use the very few flu shots that contain the contested preservative, elevating unproven fears it ...

Influenza causes substantial morbidity in children in the United States each year. The 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic disproportionately affected the pediatric population and resulted in a ...

Last year, they treated a child for flu-related ANE at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, and published a case report in Neurology.

This year’s harsh flu season – the most intense in 15 years – has federal health officials trying to understand if it sparked an increase in a rare but life-threatening brain complication in ...

Federal guidelines no longer recommend flu vaccines containing a preservative, used in a small percentage of vaccines, that ...

Community pharmacies will be able to offer flu vaccination for young children under a one-season trial this winter.

NEW YORK -- More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago, according to a federal report released Friday.